‘Upgrade to Associateship’ is an intensive course specifically designed to steer you towards the valued accolade of ‘Associateship’. If achieving your Licentiate is the first ‘benchmark’ then the acquisition of an Associateship is a huge step forward marking your progress as an expert practitioner. At the grade of Licentiate you were in pursuit of a competent and average standard of professional imaging. The road to Associateship is an arduous and demanding one that encourages you to exploit your skills to the full, acquire others and develop a personal style. This second stage in your professional development is a one week course (which is never long enough) in which we will try to cover all of the following topics:

• The constituent elements of an ‘Associateship’ panel
• Critical Analysis – moving self evaluation to another phase
• Re-examining the important ‘Rules’ of composition and image design and learning when and where to break them
• Thinking ‘outside the box’
• Images within Images – identifying more hidden gems
• The beginnings of identifying your personal style
• Shoot with creativity, flair, imagination & passion
• Re-visiting Dynamics in subject posing and control
• Advanced presentation techniques for qualification and print competitions
• How your panel is judged
• The Dissection of images relative to Judging Components and learning to break personal attachment
• The International Print Competition 100 point system
• The Judging experience – understanding the judging process and working with your peers
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• Course fee: £995.00 inclusive of all tuition, accomodation, food, drinks and airport transfers. Excludes flights and holiday insurance.

          Delegates: 4 on each course

         Duration – 7 Days on site, 5 active training days

         Dates: 14th - 21st October 2008  ONLY 1 PLACE REMAINING